T-Mobile benefits from Hilton hack...

[VJ]

Now this is odd...

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/danger/index.php#hilton-hack-boosts-tmo-sales-034459

Apparently, sales for T-Mobiles sidekick II are soaring after the Paris Hiltons handheld got hacked.
I would have guessed the opposite

This seems to indicate (to me), that people were actually unaware of the capabilities of such devices , and that the newscoverage of this hack has made them realize what can be done today with mobile devices.
But at the same time it illustrates that most people aren't worried about security...

Weird...


Jörg

PS: The text references to VJs , but I have nothing to do with them!

[agallag]

By the way, it wasn't a security problem at T-Mobile that caused this. Paris set one of her "secret questions" to "What's the name of your favourite pet?". Duh.

[VJ]

Thanks!
I didn't know that was the cause...


Jörg

[lecter]

Hihi, you know how it is, whenever someone makes an idiot-proof system, a better idiot is created

[xortam]

Originally posted by lecter
Hihi, you know how it is, whenever someone makes an idiot-proof system, a better idiot is created

"Secret questions 'security'" sure aren't idiot proof but PH sure has proven herself to be an idiot ... an attention-craving one at that.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Originally posted by agallag
By the way, it wasn't a security problem at T-Mobile that caused this. Paris set one of her "secret questions" to "What's the name of your favourite pet?". Duh.

i thought over 400 sidekicks got hacked?

[agallag]

I hadn't heard that. I'm not positive that's what happened. Just read it somewhere online. Very believable though.

T-Mobile has been hacked before though, so it could easily have been their fault too...

[Umfriend]

Them secret questions are a prob for me. I always make the answer up because anyone could find the real answers for me. But then I forget what it was I made up......